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Originally Posted by Rochard
Great, fine, let's stop all military spending. We can argue that the US military helped to move technology forward during the cold way - in huge ways - but honestly, we don't need this now. US industry - as well as other countries - can easily take over this role if they haven't already.
But then... All that money we spend on the military, it's dependents, the tens of millions of civilian contractors.... All of them would be unemployed. We'll save billions, hundreds of billions, but then we'll have tens of millions unemployed.
I'm cool with this really. Let's get rid of the Air Force, the Amry, and the Navy. Let's close nearly all of our bases across the world. The US Marines can handle the rest.
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Well, of course we can't stop it
all. We need a strong military. But our level of military spending is just insane.
And I agree 100% that it could effect the workforce / economy adversely, so it would have to be a careful, gradual reduction.
We have so much $$$ in America, but so much of it is wasted.
